So Long! Farewell! Auf Wiedersehen! Goodbye!

The bad news is...
goodbyes are never easy. =(

Karaoke Queen and 5 Sekawan of The Studio last Friday.


The good news is...
goodbyes don't ever have to be final. =)

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• Karaoke Queen Pushes The Stop Button [Sunday, November 28, 2010]

Karaoke Queen Pushes The Stop Button

Last Thursday was Karaoke Queen's last day at work. But since the day was booked way in advance by The Boss and his missus, the staff got Wednesday instead. So... last Wednesday, the lot of us brought her out for her farewell lunch at a not-so-good restaurant in town with less-than-impressive food that I can't seem to remember where. :-/

Not nice lah the food.

Dunno where also no loss. =p

And since the food was disappointing, I shall refrain from tainting the sanctity of Tinki Talks with pictures of this restaurant's menu and/or dishes. Instead, you get lots (and lots and lots) of group shots of us with the... the... urm... the... *blink blink* Eh, a girl who's celebrating her birthday is called the birthday girl, right? But but... what do you call a girl who's leaving!? @_@ Hmmm...

Whateverrr... It's PICTURE TIME!! =D

First up, the girls with Karaoke Queen.

(She's the only one with her tongue out in this next picture.)

 

Karaoke Queen with the girls.

 

A little more well-behaved this time.

 

 The girls trying to get the boys to participate in the photo session.

And here are more pictures of us
together with some of the guys.

Pull-A-Face Group Pic 1.

Pull-A-Face Group Pic 2.

Pull-A-Face Group Pic 3.

Pull-A-Face Group Pic 4.

Check out how Hacker and Surfer Daddy were looking at each other in Pull-A-Face Group Pic 4, on the far right. Hahaha. I bet they were thinking, "What the hell did we get ourselves into, man? Why are we still standing here taking pictures next to them? These girls are crayyzeee!!" Hahahaha.

*serious face – action!*

No, we're not.

*serious face – cut!*

Oh oh! And this next one happens to be the ONLY full group pic that found its way into my SD card. Hahaha. So, although Tiam Tiam's got a blurry face and is looking elsewhere (tsk tsk – no focus at all =p), I'm posting it.

Urm... I don't wanna know what Tiam Tiam
was doing with Surfer Daddy on the far right.
Or what Surfer Daddy was doing to Tiam Tiam.

@_@

 ANYHOO... wanna know which was

my favourite picture from lunch?

It's gotta be this candid one:

 

It's easy to see who's the ever-ready bunny

who's always oh-so-camera-aware. =p

Forget the Apple iPhone 4, Forget The SONY Cyber-shot™ TX5. THIS My New Obsession!!

Meet the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2

that's rumoured to be in stores by January 2011.

OMG, I want! Panasonic Lumix, please sponsor me!!!

I promise I'll write you an advertorial a day for a year!

Having said that, if any of you (or your friends) are interested in buying my very loyal 1.5-year-old Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 with a 14-45mm lens, SHOOT ME AN EMAIL! I can be reached at tinkitalks@gmail.com =)

It's A Small World After All... Part 2!

There was a reader-turned-friend who came up to Penang last weekend with whom I met up with. She comments pretty often and if you're one to read comments on Tinki Talks, you'd probably have noticed her. Her name is Lissa.

 Lissa and I at Manila's Place for dinner last Saturday night.

The picture you see here was from my camera. But since cameras are a dime a dozen these days, she brought her own and took pictures, too! Ahh, but here's the difference between us. You see, Lissa actually does something with her pictures (other than blog). She uploads them onto Facebook! Me? Urm... My pictures tend to sit and collect virtual dust until my harddisk either gets corrupted (happened twice) or my comp gets stolen. -_-'''

ANYHOO...

Turns out Facebook have proven itself to be

the unbeatable social networking site it is once again!

Check this out...

Our picture, as uploaded by Lissa onto Facebook.

First chunk of responses:

@_@

So, curious, I asked who Andrew was.

Whoaaa... Okayyy.

That's a pretty small world we're talking about, isn't it?

So my next question to them was how Andrew knew Lissa.

And then...

 

FU-YUH!!! The Fiancé also kena tarik masuk! I tell you that 6 degrees of separation thing is a lie lah. A LIE! Where got 6 degrees here, I ask you??

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I Feel Like A Million Bucks!

I was reading Karen Cheng's model-human-shoe-scare post about shoes when suddenly... alarm bells started ringing in my head and a voice – that very oddly sounded a lot like mine (har har) – shouted at me (the nerve!) – with its resounding echoes vibrating through my brain from right to left and back again (the voice knows no mercy) – saying:

"WOAI, WOMAN! You better start wearing in your (potential) wedding shoes before they whip their super-bling satin-smooth asses around on you and stab you in the back. Or in this case, your heels! You don't want any shoes – no matter how pretty – to bite your toes and heels off even as you're teetering down the aisle, now do you?? DO YOU???"

@_@

Nope, I don't.

So...

For the first time since I purchased them late last month, I very carefully took my (potential) wedding shoes out, put them on, stood up, and then... WHOA. @_@

The clocks stopped ticking,
the world stopped spinning,

and Time. Just. Stood. Still.

Although I was (and still am) in a very old, very tattered, very faded t-shirt I've had since I was 15 (or younger), I suddenly felt like million bucks! Serious!! I felt... wah... like a million bucks lah! No other way to put it already. So much so that my right hand started twitching cos it automatically wanted to The Slo-Mo Wave like I was the Queen of England or Miss America or something! HAHA. Maybe cos of the 'S' posture those high heels put me in. Or the height those 4.5-inchers provided. Dunno lah. Whatever the case...

ALL HAIL HIGH HEELS

that kill our feet and strain our backs!

May our love-hate relationship

live on and on and on!

Tear Me Up Inside

I got so angry today
my mom saw my hands shake.

@_@

I scare myself sometimes.

Working Is Like Playing Chess

Don't waste your energy fighting soldiers.

If you kill the king, you win the chess game.

– Pam Song, 25 November 2010

This Is Why I Love My iPhone (More)

Especially handy when the Internet
at The Office is down (like now) or moving
at snail's pace (like it usually is). =)